Hey there HMR,

Very nice design and project! :thumbsup: I can't wait to see how it works for you. BTW that is some nice neat work, I'm very impressed.

I would like to clear up something though.....
Quote Originally Posted by Horsemanrocks
Oldmac reports that after a 100% fogging in a cloner that the lacey roots created by fogging need a week to ten days to restructure to roots that function well in a splash environment.
....what I found was; going from a regular clonner that just sprays water around, there is a lack of fine lacey roots so when the rooted clones went into a fog based enviroment it took a week to ten days for them to adopt (really grow) fine hair roots. The reverse probably holds true, but the transition may be easier since there will be some tap or water roots avaiable for the plant to use.
So what I??m going to try to find out is?.what is the ratio of fogging to splashing that will allow for a smooth transition as they move down the line to a splash environment. I don??t have a clue. Maybe (hint) with luck, a few fogheads will help me figure out where to start.
That is what I need to figure out also. I am still undecided about which would be better, adding pond foggers to my EZ-clonners or build a pond fogger based fog generator (bucket of fog) and just introduce the fog to the clonners. Either way, getting that ratio correct will be important.

As LOC NAR pointed out, the hair roots are very delicate, but they are formed after the first roots emerge that are water roots. So there should be roots "reaching" down towards water to sustain the plants if the fog takes a holiday. In my aero/fog grow tray I stopped both the aero and fog for over an hour with no damage to the hair roots. The humidity level in the root zone never reached the point of the hair roots drying out after an hour or so, not sure how long it would take but again there was a lot of water roots laying on the bottom of the tray so the potential to completely loose them seems remote to me.

I think a good starting point for you would be to run the pond fogger all the time and spray for 1 minute every 15 minutes or so. But once you get this thing up and running you should get a better idea of how much fog you have and what the cuttings need.

-oldmac